What needs to be remembered is everything we eat is digested to be reduced to the cells we need to regenerate our body. Our bodies have evolved to take meat and grains and reduce them to their base cells to be absorbed by the body.

Using engineering to artificially create that food is removing the cell structure our body needs, which is creating the increase in illness we experience today.

If the lab grown meat has the same taste, texture and nutrient content as fresh meat, what would be the problem? They could combine technologies and 3D print chops and topside roasts. I'd have no problem with it.

It is all a push for GM foods becoming acceptable. Meat grown in a lab ticks the vegan box as they already eat stuff grown in labs like quorn and so don't care. As for veganism saving the world well it does if you eat home grown produce, not if your eating avocados or you food contains palm oil for example its a nonsense and marketing dream.

That aside, there is a lot to be said regarding diet manipulation. The drive for physical exercise has increased more in the last 10+ years and we are seeing people become less sedentary. Yet it's interesting that diseases of the minds and gut are becoming common place. I never suffered with weight issues or stomach pain until I spent 6 months working and living in the US. When I returned I had put on nearly 3 stone and have had irritable bowel since. Took me a good few years to lose that weight but still have the IBS.Now that wasn't a result of meat, but more a result of eating bread. And this for me is the issue.Anyone who knows about agriculture will have heard of the Green revolution. Research into producing grains and improving agriculture yields through genetic biotechnology. As a result I believe that crops are so bad for us due to these alien hybrids that most have caused the illnesses we see today.

What I am saying here is that, veganism and vegetarianism started out due to cruelty to animals as part of a hippy or religious motivation. It is now about the science of how bad meat is, yet any diet that becomes a fad is then made in to a science and vegetarianism etc is no different.

All our food is corrupt including our meat, so the science is irrelevant about what is good or bad for us. A lot is to be said for variety but not about removing key food staples from our diet.

Just look at the news today regarding many people in their 20's being diagnosed with bowel cancer. Funny that age group is one of the highest for favouring vegan and vegetarian diets.

I initially trained as a Chef, went to college got my city and guilds, respect to anyone who has done it for a few years its fucking hard graft and usually long unsociable hours.

But do remember the way most chefs regard vegetarians and in particular vegans as being cunts, even know when someone tells me there vegetarian i think odds on your a bit of a cunt......im usually right!

Anthony Bourdain had it spot on with his comments and was known for a special dislike for vegans and vegetarians. In his book Kitchen Confidential, he wrote “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.